Electronic health platform at AsiaWorld-Expo Covid-19 hospital streamlines patient processing, protects medical staff
- Patients register their mobile number once admitted, and are taught how to check their own vital signs and input data, minimising contact with workers
- Facility at exhibition centre near the airport has received nearly 600 coronavirus patients between the ages of 18 and 60
Hong Kong health authorities have set up an electronic platform that will allow for easier processing of coronavirus patients and protect medical workers by minimising contact at the city’s first makeshift hospital.
The newly installed health system has been in place since the facility began operating on August 1 to help ease pressure on the city’s public hospitals.
Patients are required to register their mobile number once they are admitted, and are given a QR code as an identifier inside the facility. They are then taught how to check their own vital signs and input the data into the system.
“Medical staff will not need to physically approach the patient to monitor and check their vitals, which reduces the risk of infection. It also increases our interaction with patients digitally,” said Dr Polk Wan Chi-kin, an accident and emergency associate consultant at North Lantau Hospital, adding that they had received positive feedback about the system.
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